Le Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 2893137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Le Wang |
| FAMILY NAME | Le Wang |
| SIGNATURE | LE WANG |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0327-7315 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Qian Xuesen’s question II: How and when does collectivism affect divergent thinking?
Lung cancer in never-smoking females: Epidemiology, risk factors and screening
Although smoking is a well-established risk factor, lung cancer in never-smokers exhibits distinct epidemiological and biological characteristics. Globally, approximately two-thirds of lung cancer cases in never-smokers occur in females, with a higher prevalence observed in Asian populations. Understanding these epidemiological patterns and specific risk factors holds significant implications for informing effective prevention and control strateg…
Soil Properties and Plant Functional Traits Jointly Determine the Wetland Plant Diversity Undergoing Shrub Encroachment in a Semi‐Arid Region
Climate change and human activities have exacerbated land degradation, particularly in semi‐arid wetlands. This degradation is manifested through shrub encroachment, which drives shifts in plant community composition, subsequently reshaping species diversity, and altering ecosystem function via modifications to soil properties and plant functional strategies. However, the specific soil drivers, key functional traits, and their mediating pathways …
Do China's energy poor left-behind regions benefit from solar photovoltaics
Impact of incorporating Chinese cultural elements into product attributes on purchase intentions via multiple mediating roles of cultural identity: Evidence from the Forbidden City
To investigate how Perceived Cultural Embeddedness (PCE) influences Purchase Intention (PI) and to uncover the underlying psychological mechanisms shaping consumer responses to culturally embedded products, this study adopts a dual-stage analytical framework grounded in Symbolic Consumption and Social Identity Theories based on survey data (N = 1376). Structural Equation Modeling is employed to examine the hypothesized linear relationships, while…
Who projects what, and how? Disciplinary variations in that-clause projection in research articles
Autonomous Fitness Behavior and Social Anxiety in College Students: The Chain Mediating Roles of Rumination and Emotional–Social Isolation
This study aimed to investigate the relationships between autonomous fitness behavior and social anxiety among college students, as well as the chain mediation roles of rumination and emotional-social isolation in this relationship. The study used the Autonomous Fitness Behavior Scale, Social Anxiety Scale, Rumination Scale, and Emotional-Social Isolation Scale to investigate 976 college students. Correlation analysis, regression analysis, and st…
Disparity in cancer literacy by socioeconomic status
Cancer literacy is a crucial component of cancer prevention, and disparities in cancer burden are observed based on socioeconomic status (SES). Evidence on the relationship between SES and cancer literacy among Chinese population is limited. This study aims to evaluate the association between SES disparities and cancer literacy. This multicenter cross-sectional survey included 12 sites in China, employing a multistage proportional stratified clus…
Head start staff well-being: Early impact results from a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Happy Teacher Wellness Intervention
Intergenerational value perception in heritage conservation: A systematic review and integration of perspectives
Heritage conservation’s intergenerational value transmission is increasingly recognized as a vital yet complex domain within heritage studies, necessitating systematic assessment of how values are constructed, negotiated, and perpetuated across generations. This systematic review focuses on intergenerational value perception in heritage conservation in accordance with preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses and scientif…
The interplay between positive lifestyle habits and academic excellence in higher education
Systematically examining the correlation between the lifestyle habits of undergraduate students and their academic performance holds significant practical implications in advancing higher education. This study adopts an integrated perspective and analyzes a substantial dataset (3,123,840 data points) of 3499 undergraduates at a Chinese university. This study employs a Long short-term memory neural network to identify eating behavior indicators an…
Analysis of blood utilisation efficiency driven by clinical management and hospital heterogeneity
Background Blood is a critical yet scarce medical resource, and improving the efficiency with which it is utilised remains a major global challenge. In 2019, China introduced Quality Control Indicators for Clinical Blood Use in an attempt to standardise management. However, significant discrepancies remain between the intended policy and its practical implementation, resulting in inefficiencies and safety concerns. Objective This study aims to qu…
Effects of Exposure to Conflicting Health Information on Topic-Specific Information Sharing and Seeking Intentions
Despite considerable evidence that exposure to conflicting health information can have undesirable effects on outcomes including public understanding about and trust in health recommendations, comparatively little is known about whether such exposure influences intentions to engage in two communication behaviors central to public health promotion: information sharing and information seeking. The purpose of the current study is to test whether exp…
A multi-value based approach to identify potential dark sky places in mainland China
Enhancing decision support for bystander interventions: The role of victim emotional disclosure and collective signals in social media incivility
Elucidating diverse population exposure to compound drought and heatwave events from two meteorological drought indices (SPI and SPEI)
Anthropogenic climate change has significantly exacerbated the frequency and severity of Compound Drought and Heatwave (CDHW) events, increasing risks such as water shortages, wildfires, and heat-related mortality. Previous studies often use a single drought index, such as the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) or the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), while our study uses both SPI and SPEI to elucidate the effect of …
Association between the screen time spent watching short videos at bedtime and essential hypertension in young and middle-aged people: A cross-sectional study
The screen time spent watching short videos at bedtime was significantly associated with essential hypertension in young and middle-aged people, and the nomogram was a good predictor of the risk of essential hypertension among young and middle-aged people
Undocumented immigrants and the growth of Hispanic entrepreneurship
Over the last two decades, there has been a significant surge in the self-employment rate among Hispanics, especially among Hispanic immigrants. However, the reasons behind this increase remain underexplored. This paper addresses this gap by examining the role of undocumented immigrants, a substantial part of the Hispanic immigrant population, by discerning immigrants’ legal status in the Current Population Survey–Annual Social and Economic data …
Lianhua Qingke Tablet in severe pneumonia: Clinical efficacy and immunoregulatory mechanisms
LHQK demonstrates therapeutic efficacy in severe pneumonia by maintaining structural integrity, suppressing cytokine storms, enhancing intrinsic immunity, reversing T cell exhaustion, and correcting lung immune disorders. These findings significantly substantiate LHQK's potential clinical application in severe pneumonia treatment
Exploring the process of workplace ostracism leads to workplace deviance: The moderated mediation effect of coworker incivility
With the awakening of diversified interests and the increasing complexity of workplace competition, ostracism and other undesirable workplace interactions have proliferated, considerably depleting employees' work and emotional resources. Workplace ostracism, a prevalent negative interpersonal dynamic, often depletes employees' resources and triggers deviant behaviors, causing significant organizational losses. This study examines how workplace os…
Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regressions
Current research on intergenerational mobility (IGM) is informed by statistical approaches based on log-level regressions, whose economic interpretations remain largely unknown. We reveal the subjective value-judgments in them: they are represented by weighted-sums (or aggregators) over heterogeneous groups, with controversial economic properties. Log-level regressions tend to overrepresent the experiences of middle-class children while underrepr…
Politician’s childhood experience and government policies: Evidence from the Chinese Great Famine
Impact of population ageing on cancer-related disability-adjusted life years: A global decomposition analysis
Background: As the global population ages, the burden of cancer is increasing. We aimed to assess the impact of population ageing on cancer-related disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Methods: We used the decomposition method to estimate the impact of ageing, population growth, and epidemiological change on cancer-related DALYs from 1990 to 2019, stratified by 204 countries/territories and by their sociodemographic index (SDI). This approach …
To Achieve Carbon Neutrality, What Do Individual Residents Say? A Case Study of Yunnan Province of China Based on Spatial Analysis
This study aims to explore factors that affect individual residents’ behaviors contributing to reducing carbon emissions (low-carbon behaviors), based on the empirical analysis of the choice of adoption and the extent of adoption of low-carbon practices, such as using low-carbon transportation and energy-saving, in Kunming, China. We use spatial econometric regression models to consider positive spillover of low-carbon behaviors amongst residents…
Ecological degradation and green development at crossroads: Incorporating the sustainable development goals into the regional green transformation and reform
Using Geometrical, Textural, and Contextual Information of Land Parcels for Classification of Detailed Urban Land Use
Detailed urban land use data are important to government officials, researchers, and businesspeople for a variety of purposes. This article presents an approach to classifying detailed urban land use based on geometrical, textural, and contextual information of land parcels. An area of 6 by 14 km in Austin, Texas, with land parcel boundaries delineated by the Travis Central Appraisal District of Travis County, Texas, is tested for the approach. W…
Informal search, bad search: The effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China
Exploring digital communication: Language in action
Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-Off a Trade-Off for All, None, or Some
Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship—particularly on child health—is limited. We use two measures of child health to assess the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire distribution. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and controlling for the potential endogeneity of child quantity, we find modest, statisticall…
The Gender Gap between Earnings Distributions
We advocate a different approach to measure the gender gap, summarizing each distribution by suitable evaluative functions and computing the difference between the evaluations. Unlike the conventional approach, ours does not assume rank invariance. We discuss the decision-theoretic framework behind different functions and introduce measures based on entropy functions. We further adopt quantile-copula approaches to account for selection into full-…
Knot yet: Minimum marriage age law, marriage delay, and earnings
Impact of farmer group participation on the adoption of sustainable farming practices—spatial analysis of New Zealand dairy farmers
This paper analyzes the impact of participation in farmer groups on dairy farmers’ adoption of sustainable farming practices in New Zealand. A spatial propensity score matching method is used to consider the spatial dependence and social connections between farmers in the decision‐making of farmer group participation and adoption of sustainable farming practices. The results show that farmers’ decisions of farmer group participation are affected …
Education for profit in the era of Xi: Biopower, resistance and China’s double reduction policy
This study aims to advance the understanding of for-profit Chinese education during the tenure of Chairman Xi Jinping. Notably, Xi has recently targeted the privately operated, for-profit before-and-after school supplementary tutoring industry, commonly referred to as “Shadow Education”. In 2021, the introduction of the Double Reduction policy abruptly prohibited most SE businesses. Our research seeks to elucidate the impacts of this sudden polic…
Integrating Physical Media Education into Elderly Care Programs: A Case Study of Enhancing Well-being and Promoting High-Quality Life
This study examined the impact of media education for elderly care programs in China on the well-being and quality of life of elderly population. This study investigated how media education turned older population in techno-savvy and improved the well-being and quality of life of the elderly population. The objectives of the study were to bring forth the role played by media awareness of social media, to examine the challenges associated with it,…
Analyzing the Impact of Digital Media on Promoting High-Quality Skiing Education: A Case Study of Online Tutorials and Social Media Campaigns
This study investigates the impact of digital media on promoting high-quality skills by assessing its impact on collaborative education and technological skills within Chinese higher education. A survey-based strategy was adopted and three explanatory variables were incorporated, namely students’ learning using social media, students’ experience of using social media in teaching and social media usage frequency. The learner’s motivation was also …
Individual Vacant House Detection in Very-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images
The formation and demolition of vacant houses are the most visible sign of city shrinking and revitalization. Timely detection of vacant houses has become an inevitable task to aid the “Smart City” initiative. Two pressing problems exist for vacant houses, however: (1) No publicly accessible information is available at the individual house level and (2) the decennial census survey does not catch up with the rapidly changing status of vacant house…
Using Semi-variance Image Texture Statistics to Model Population Densities
This study presents a method to model population densities by using image texture statistics of semi-variance. In a case study of the City of Austin, Texas, we first selected sample census blocks of the same land use to build population models by land use. Regression analyses were conducted to infer the relationship between block population densities and image texture statistics of the semi-variance. We then applied the population models to an ar…
Using Geometrical, Textural, and Contextual Information of Land Parcels for Classification of Detailed Urban Land Use
Detailed urban land use data are important to government officials, researchers, and businesspeople for a variety of purposes. This article presents an approach to classifying detailed urban land use based on geometrical, textural, and contextual information of land parcels. An area of 6 by 14 km in Austin, Texas, with land parcel boundaries delineated by the Travis Central Appraisal District of Travis County, Texas, is tested for the approach. W…
Promoting living space protection while ensuring sustainable tourism in Yuhu Village, Lijiang City
The integrity of the living space of villages with rich historical settings and traditional culture is increasingly challenged by modern economic development. Sustainable development of such villages will be impractical unless their space is protected. In this paper, the living space for Yuhu Village, an important tourist attraction in Lijiang City, is introduced and analysed on the basis of in situ observations, and principles and strategies for…
Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-Off a Trade-Off for All, None, or Some
Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship—particularly on child health—is limited. We use two measures of child health to assess the quantity-quality trade-off across the entire distribution. Using data from the Indonesia Family Life Survey and controlling for the potential endogeneity of child quantity, we find modest, statisticall…
Glossary of Textile Terminology (Based on the Documents from Dunhuang and Turfan)
This glossary presents 80 items of textile terminology that are found in the Chinese documents from Dunhuang and Turfan, or in historical texts. Some of these terms can be identified with actual textiles found at sites in north-western China. Readers should be aware that there are variations in textile terminology in this international field of research: for example, we have used “plain weave” where other textile specialists might prefer “tabby”;…
Reconciling Excavated Textiles with Contemporary Documentary Evidence: A Closer Look at the Finds from a Sixth-Century Tomb at Astana
The excavation of tombs in the Astana graveyard, Turfan, has provided a wealth of evidence for studying everyday life on the Silk Road. Manuscripts and textiles constitute two major groups of the excavated finds. Among the manuscripts are over 60 burial inventories ( yiwushu ), listing items that would accompany the deceased to the afterlife. Some of the items on the inventories were real and can be identified with objects found in the tombs; som…
Exploring digital communication: Language in action
Patch Metrics
Human–nature interaction has greatly changed the world at various spatial and temporal scales. Given the fact that ecological processes are closely underpinned by landscape patterns and their changes, patch metrics are set forth to quantitatively document such patterns with the aim to better understand and conserve the environment and ecosystem. As of today, a large number of metrics have been developed, representing both the composition and the …
Knot yet: Minimum marriage age law, marriage delay, and earnings
Informal search, bad search: The effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China
The Gender Gap between Earnings Distributions
We advocate a different approach to measure the gender gap, summarizing each distribution by suitable evaluative functions and computing the difference between the evaluations. Unlike the conventional approach, ours does not assume rank invariance. We discuss the decision-theoretic framework behind different functions and introduce measures based on entropy functions. We further adopt quantile-copula approaches to account for selection into full-…
Economic burden of lung cancer attributable to smoking in China in 2015
Smoking-attributable economic burden caused by lung cancer was substantial in China in 2015, and will continue increasing given current trends in lung cancer. However, future economic burden can be prevented with implementation of effective tobacco control and other interventions
Expenditure and Financial Burden for Stomach Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in China: A Multicenter Study
Background: Stomach cancer is a huge threaten to the of Chinese people’s health. However, few studies were known about the expenditure and the financial burden of stomach cancer in China. Methods: To estimate the direct (medical and non-medical expenditure) and indirect expenditure for diagnosis and treatment for stomach cancer patients in China, a multicenter survey was conducted in 37 tertiary hospitals in 13 provinces across China from 2012 to…
Comparing EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L performance in common cancers: Suggestions for instrument choosing
Individual Vacant House Detection in Very-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images
The formation and demolition of vacant houses are the most visible sign of city shrinking and revitalization. Timely detection of vacant houses has become an inevitable task to aid the “Smart City” initiative. Two pressing problems exist for vacant houses, however: (1) No publicly accessible information is available at the individual house level and (2) the decennial census survey does not catch up with the rapidly changing status of vacant house…
Incidence Density and Predictors of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Among Individuals With Previous Tuberculosis History: A 15-Year Retrospective Cohort Study
Background: To date, too little attention has been paid to monitoring and estimating the risk of incident multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among individuals with a previous tuberculosis history (PTBH). The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence of and risk factors for MDR-TB in those individuals. Methods: Between 2005 and 2020, a large, retrospective, population-based cohort study was performed in Hangzhou, China. A multivaria…
From freemium to premium: The roles of consumption values and game affordance
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to facilitate understanding of how to convert free players to paid consumers in free-to-play games. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the consumption value framework and affordance theory, the present study argues that in-game purchase behaviors are determined by multiple consumption values of in-game items. The perceptions of consumption values were influenced by game affordances. The model was tested, u…
SNAP participation, diet quality, and obesity: Robust evidence with estimation techniques without external instrumental variables
Rapid discrimination and screening of volatile markers for varietal recognition of Curcumae Radix using ATR-FTIR and HS-GC-MS combined with chemometrics
Burden of kidney cancer and attributed risk factors in China from 1990 to 2019
Background The changing trends and risk-attributed burdens of kidney cancer in China are unknown. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the latest status and trends of kidney cancer burden in China and its associated risk factors. Methods The absolute numbers and rates of the incidence, deaths, and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) of kidney cancer in China were extracted from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 platform. Overall burden and …
Prostate Cancer Incidence and Mortality: Global Status and Temporal Trends in 89 Countries From 2000 to 2019
AIMS: To evaluate current status of prostate cancer incidence and mortality worldwide, and compare the global trends of incidence and mortality in the past two decades and in the most recent period. METHODS: Data on the incidence and mortality of prostate cancer for 174 countries in 2020 were obtained from the GLOBOCAN 2020 database, and associations with the human development index (HDI) were evaluated. Data for trend analyses in 89 countries fr…
Heavy metal(loid)s in farmland soils on the Karst Plateau, Southwest China: An integrated analysis of geochemical baselines, source apportionment, and associated health risk
The Karst Plateau is characterized by elevated heavy metals (HM), the farmland soils in the Karst Plateau area is especially vulnerable to HM pollution. To cope with soil HM pollution and conduct precaution in Karst Plateau, the key bottleneck is to understand the pollution levels, sources, and priority‐control of HM. Hence, geochemical baselines of HM in farmland soils were established to accurately evaluate the pollution characteristics. Pollut…
Understanding peer recommendation in mobile social games: The role of needs–supplies fit and game identification
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the antecedents of peer recommendations (generating positive word-of-mouth and recruiting others) in the context of mobile social games. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the needs–supplies fit framework and social identity theory, this paper proposes that game design characteristics (challenge, fairness, innovativeness and ease of use) influence game identification, which further predicts w…
A Nonparametric Nonclassical Measurement Error Approach to Estimating Intergenerational Mobility Elasticities
This article provides a framework for estimating intergenerational mobility elasticities (IGEs) of children’s income with respect to parental income. We allow the IGEs to be heterogeneous, by leaving the relationship of parental and child incomes unspecified, while acknowledging and addressing the latent nature of both child and parental permanent incomes and the resulted life-cycle bias. Our framework enables us to test the widely imposed assump…
Metagenomic Analysis Reveals the Response of Microbial Communities and Their Functions in Lake Sediment to Environmental Factors
Jingpo Lake is the largest mountain barrier lake in China and plays a key role in breeding, power generation, and providing a source of drinking water. Microbes are important participants in the formation of lake resources and energy cycles. However, the ecological protection of Jingpo Lake has faced serious challenges in recent years. In this study, we investigate the responses of the microbial community's composition of sediments at five locati…
Medicine (18 works) · Geography (15 works) · Economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · China (10 works) · Internal Medicine (10 works) · Population (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Business (9 works)